My experience with LA was largely shaped by the owners of Golden Saddle Cyclery, who have shown me places I would have never thought existed in a city that carries so many stigmas and connotations associated with that dreaded “car culture.”

Austin may be known for keeping things weird, but even in the city’s alterna-paradise there’s one person who can get the most jaded hipster to turn his head and stare—or at least, his bikes can. Welcome to the world of John Watson, aka John Prolly, aka founder of The Radavist, the source for all things bike culture and adventure related and perhaps the closest thing that the cycling world has to an internet celebrity…